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noun

Clamp n.

1.

Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

2.

(a)

An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

(b)

(Joinery) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.

3.

One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

4.

(Shipbuilding) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.

5.

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.

6.

A mollusk. See Clam. (Obs.)

Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.

Clamp n. A heavy footstep; a tramp.

verb

Clamp v. t. (past & past part. clamped; pres. part. clamping)

1.

To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.

2.

To cover, as vegetables, with earth. (Eng.)

Clamp v. i. To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. "The policeman with clamping feet."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... vise or clamp with two strips of wood even with the back edges of the magazines. With a sharp saw cut a slit in the magazines and wood strips about 1/2 in. deep and slanting as shown at A and B, Fig. 1. Take two strips of stout cloth, about ...

— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... hurry. One ladder-bearer came clattering up; but the ladders were in six-foot lengths, and a single length was useless. Nevertheless, in his rage of haste, Corporal Sam seized it from the man, and was bending to clamp it over the pit, when from the parapet to the right a sudden cross-fire swept the head of the breach. A bullet struck him in the hand. He looked up, with the pain of it, in time to see Major Frazer spin about, topple past the sergeant's hand thrust out to steady ...

— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... part of the horizon glass. Now, move the sliding limb along the arc gradually until you see the other lighthouse in the reflected horizon of the horizon glass. When one lighthouse in the true horizon is directly on top of the other lighthouse in the reflected horizon, clamp the sliding limb. If any additional adjustment must be made, make it with ...

— Lectures in Navigation • Ernest Gallaudet Draper

... the family moved from the Bottoms to a house on the brow of the hill, commanding a view of the valley, which spread out like a convex cockle-shell, or a clamp-shell, before it. In front of the house was a huge old ash-tree. The west wind, sweeping from Derbyshire, caught the houses with full force, and the tree ...

— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence

... same formidable breed. The mastodon, we must suppose, lacked much of the finesse of the rogue elephant of later evolution. And Vogelstein's Semitism was of the archaic, potent, monumental type. His abundant fat looked hard. For all the sagging double chin, his jaw retained the character of a clamp. Among the strong race of art dealers he was feared. Whole collections not single objects were his quarry. He paid lavishly, foolishly, counting as confidently on the ignorance and vanity of his clients, ...

— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather

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